The Sleeping Giant Awakens (Obama, radicals and racial violence)

American Thinker ^ | August 10, 2011 | Robin of Berkeley

[2ndDivisionVet]

One of my closest friends, "Gail," lives in a pristine suburb in northern New Jersey. It's one of those leafy bedroom communities where residents drive their Lexus SUVs to the railroad station each morning to catch the train to Manhattan.

After 9/11, Gail told me that eerily, several vehicles were left abandoned in the parking lot for weeks. Their drivers never returned home that day to retrieve them.

But, in general, not much goes on in her sleepy, idyllic town. The residents rave about shopping sprees to Loehmanns and sprints to Whole Foods for organic strawberries. There is no crime to speak of; the local paper blares news about a recent traffic accident or the opening of a Trader Joe's. So when Gail told me what happened to her son, I was absolutely dumbfounded.

As for Gail, like my former self, she's a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party.....

[baa39]

The matter is not that Obama is the ‘orchestrator’.

The matter is that Obama is evil. As president, and one with an heroic superstar image to his fans, he gives permission to every lost soul to embrace evil.

If the president were not evil, those lost souls might be led in a better direction by one of any number of thousands of other leaders and role models in our society.

To understand what I’m saying, you need to believe in evil. If you don’t think it exists, and everything is just rational decisions or psychological motivations, then of course it would be silly to think one person could have this influence. How many examples in history that seemed great, noble leaders at the beginning?

[Publius6961]

but I cannot view this a some sort of assault orchestrated by Obama.

I can.
And the result is the same whether done by design or out of ignorance.

Ever spent any real time in DC? The proportion of "his people" who hold non-elective government jobs is several times their representation in the metropolitan population, always has been, but the imbalace increased significantly beginning in January, 2009.
Plus there is his (personal) "National Army" that he proposed soon after taking office. Guess the traditional National Guard from all states just wouldn't do.

He has st racial relations back far beyond 1964, with the childish zeal of a wimp who discovered suddenly that he can act like a bully with impunity.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

[Rashputin]

Well, duh.

Just like the lead up to other revolutions the first step is to get people used to acting as part of a mob. It's already been done within the Black community where now days even otherwise level headed people will excuse violence and theft because, “there was a riot going on so stealing something that was going to burn anyway doesn't make any difference”. Now, by making it like some sort of fun rave, the white teenagers and youth are being trained the same exact way.

Once there are sufficient numbers of folks, well, that's when they start showing up with some sort of clothing or armbands that identify them as “good guys” to one another. By the time the election of 2012 rolls around seeing a few Black Panther types at the polls will be nothing. Mobs will be showing up and beating people and/or tearing up the voting places in those areas that are known to be conservative. The media will be blathering the best sort of “Goebbels School of Journalism” rationalizations for it and “debating” whether it's worse than “the poor” being “denied their right to vote” in other areas.

Never let a crisis go to waste will take on a whole new dimension.

[LyinLibs]

“....but I cannot view this a some sort of assault orchestrated by Obama.”

This is classic “Destabilization.” Riots; coddling terrorists with show trials; freeing criminals; legalizing voter intimidation (Black Panthers outside Philly polling station); ordering ATF to arm drug cartels with semi-auto riles; SEIU mobs attacking Tea Parties and town halls; busloads of ACORN/SEIU protesting outside homes of CEO’s.

This is Phase 2 of the Communist/Marxist program.

Best explained by this KGB defector (VIDEO HERE):

http://bravenewcommie.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/kgb-defector-obama-agenda-is-pure-marxist/

[Publius6961]

That’s probably true. Would you bump it tomorrow afternoon?

I do believe that we lost the ability to "bump" threads a few FR "improvements" ago.
And reposting runs the risk of awakening the self-important and self-appointed "reposting police."

So good luck with that.

[Spktyr]

Hint: It started with the sudden drop of charges against the Black Panthers in the voter intimidation case, where it was a slam dunk conviction and has gone on through the deliberate blindness of the DOJ towards crimes committed by ‘people of color’ against whites and Asians.

They got the message that they don’t need to worry about getting busted.

[Spktyr]

Robin is a she. :P

[Publius6961]

No. The smart people are here at night.

LOL!
Flattering as that might seem, the "smart people" already know all the forms of the "Dark Side" and all the smoke and mirrors that everyone has to navigate.

And then there's the trolls.
They party at night, get their talking points early Eastern Time, and infest the threads during daylight, when all the newbies and the the uninformed and the unengaged surf from work.

[dr_lew]

There is something in this article with a disconsonant ring to me.

"Disconsonant" is evidently a neologism. The Merriam Webster site wants to know where you heard it. It occurs to me that it's a transmogrification ( look it up ) of "cognitive dissonance".

Anyway, the disconsonant ring to me was the entire narrative of events, in particular the writer's concern that the kids would be scarred with racist leanings, and the mild tone of his remonstrances with "Gail". I would be out of my mind.

[floozy22]

Robin's friend is naive and clueless. It is not realistic to expect that by attempting to create a "safe, sheltered reality" - you and your loved ones can avoid the dangers and pitfalls of life.

Evil yawns and stretches every now and then, but is usually righted by better forces.

While many conservatives merge liberalism and leftism, there are huge differences between the two camps. Liberals, like Gail, want a kinder and gentler America.

I'm not sure that the differences are all that huge. The disparity between liberals and lefists may just be one of degree. The desire of liberals to achieve that "kindler and gentler America" is tripe. Other than being a popular, non-specific cliche, it is an illusion. Human behavior - on a grand scale - is not kind and gentle and it never will be. It is the naivete and passivity of liberals like the writer's friend, that feeds and encourages leftists in their quest to dismantle Western Civilization.

[nathanbedford]

Before the election I wrote a vanity whose title appears below. Alas, I believe the piece has been confirmed in every respect by events [and fully anticipates this article]:

THE OBAMA PATHOLOGY

The idea of the Authoritarian Personality originated in The Frankfurt School stop old as a means of undermining the position of the father within the family circle and thereby undermine the family itself and ultimately the nation as a bulwark against communism. It was heavily larded with pseudo-Freudian analysis and was expanded to subvert all institutionalized authority. Every season we see an article, usually by some college professor with too much time in his hands or sometimes by psychiatrists acting either singly or in gaggles, opining that the current president, if he be Republican, is somehow psychologically deficient. No Republican president or Republican candidate in my lifetime has escaped this ritual psychoanalysis.

A recent excrescence of this genre is the book by Naomi Wolf in which she ludicrously argues that America, led by George Bush, is on the verge of descending into fascism. I have posted my objection to this sort of pseudoscience and I have tried to debunk this cheap propaganda so I am reluctant to engage hypocritically in the same game now. Well, I am going to do it anyway. I aim to indict about half of our whole society. The half, and likely more than half, that will vote for Barak Obama. My psychological conclusions do not pretend to the trappings of the "science" of the psyche and adorned with the word games of Freudian analysis, rather they are rooted in common sense.

The conclusion of anyone with common sense who has seen the films of innocent children singing their Obama songs or who has watched the quasi-military chanting and saluting of the Obama Youth in military garb must conclude that there is something very, very wrong with these people. I remember when I first saw the YouTube Children singing their Obama song I became conscious after a while that my mouth was gaping open, so appalled was I. My reaction to seeing the paramilitary gang marching into the karate hall was a mixture of embarrassment that these kids would make such fools of themselves and anger that adults would so brazenly manipulate children. Then I felt a creeping sense of unease that there was something potentially very sinister going on. Dear merciful God, this is Orwellian!

Beyond a very healthy repugnance to the spectacle of brainwashed children put on display, beyond the inescapable Maoist symbolism of it all, a commonsense person asks, what kind of man would permit this to go on in his name? What kind of parent would not seek to protect his child from such a man? What kind of pathology would lead parents who presumably love their children to consign those children to the demons of mind control? How could Americans fall for such a transparent cult of personality?

Unfortunately, we need not be uncertain about what kind of man would permit this grotesquerie to be advanced in his name. History provides us with plenty of examples: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Kim Jong-Il come to mind and now we add Barak Obama to the list. Why has he not spoken out and repudiated this? Would not a decent man do so if only for the children?

If Obama will not speak out now as a candidate when a little modesty, even false modesty, would advance his chances, what will he do when he gains office with no resistance anywhere on the horizon; no opposition in either the House or the Senate, no voice in traditional media to be raised against him, no institutional resistance on a national level of any kind organized to discourage him? Because he condones this obscenity one must ask, Is Obama really a narcissist as has been claimed? If so, how far will he go when he has the levers of power in his hands when there is no effective resistance to his ego?

How dangerous is Barak Obama?

Is he too dangerous to be put in a place where he could literally get us all killed? Or Is he the indispensable man in some sense? I do not think so. There is nothing in his career that suggests that he is the man for this season. In a time of war he has no military experience. In a time of looming financial disaster, he has no economic credentials. If he is potentially dangerous and if he is not indispensable, why would so many people want to put him in a position where he could do us harm, even get us all killed?

My commonsense explanation is that there must be a pathology, a mass psychosis, that brings people to the point where not only are they eager to make him the most powerful man in the world but they are invoking his name and calling upon him to be their savior. This they do rather than falling on their knees out of fear of The Real God. This is the Obama pathology.

To a middle-class conservative who instinctively rejects conspiracy theories and normally wants to think the best of people because that's what he learned in Sunday school, this deification of an empty suit is as bewildering as it is frightening. What in the world are these people thinking? Do they not weigh the risks of consigning their fate to an unqualified man, worse, a person tainted his whole life with stunningly dangerous confederates including felons and Communists and terrorists? What is the upside? What is it about this man whose career is utterly uninterrupted by any accomplishment which would motivate these people to risk their children and my children to whatever he might do to them? How do they know? How can they be sure? Don't they have any doubts?

My problem is that I am seeking after that which I cannot find. I want to find an explanation in logic for a phenomenon of emotion. It is easy for middle-class conservatives to overlook the power of emotion even though history provides plenty of examples even within our own culture in America. Can logic explain why so many drank Jim Jone's Kool aid? Why Charles Manson commanded such blood loyalty? How many cheered OJ Simpson's acquittal? Why did princes Diana's passing traumatize a nation? These are not questions which are answered with everyday commonsense. One almost has to go to the Bible to see the answer in Old Testament allegory which lets us know that evil is and there will always be worshipers of the golden calf.

I fear that in November we conservatives might find ourselves involuntarily embarked upon a journey that is foreign to our epistemology. We may be going into dark places and we might well be pushed into a netherworld where our common sense values are of no use because it is a place where down is up and black is white, a place where gravity does not pull but pushes, a place where we will need a pocket translator in order to converse in English with our government, our children's teachers, and our keepers even though they superficially use the same words we do. We sense we are about to be overwhelmed by forces guided by the ghost of Saul Alinsky.

I fear the downside of the Obama Pathology after his election may extend to dimensions we cannot begin to fasten to our everyday understanding or to our common sense. We have no way of knowing what will come because we don't know anything really about Barak Obama. We do not know if he is purely evil, we do not know if he is a committed communist, we do not know if he is a racist, we do not know if he wishes to see the submergence of the United States into a greater world order, we do not know if he is a megalomaniac, we do not even know, God help us, if he hates America. We do not know, in short, if we are backs - to- the- wall confronted with the Liberals' quadrennial nightmare: A real Authoritarian Personality.

We do know that Barak Obama has already encouraged a cult of personality whose implications are truly frightening and fundamentally un-American.

[truthguy]

A good piece.

[ETL]

"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"

[ETL]

"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
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SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[rdcbn]

I lived in the People’s Republic of Berkeley for three years in the Seventies—I know exactly what she is talking about.

My stay in Berkeley turned me from a mildly liberal person into a conservative who can spot the liberal/progressive BS immediately. Unfortunately, that BS is rampant in academia and government.

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Actually, you probably don't understand because the situation just keeps deteriorating. I was there in the 80’s and 90’s and it was worse than the 70’s.

Just went back after being gone for close to 15 years and it's way, way worse than when I left. The crazys are driving out the sane and productive people who have enough and are voting with their feet.

The Bay Area has been sliding down the slippery slope for a long time and it's getting closer to hitting a hard rock bottom.

[ETL]

Re: 911, "Black Liberation"...

August, 2003: Ward Churchill Caught On Tape Advocating Terrorism [vs Fellow Americans]

Audio link at Michell Malkin's website (included below)

Question from audience:
You mentioned a little bit ago, "Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what you all should have done a long time ago," that's my question.

Churchill: I'm gonna repeat that, tell me if I got that right: Why shouldn't we do something and how do you you move so they don't see you coming.

As to the first part, not a reason in the world that I could see. I can't find a single reason that you shouldn't in a principled way —there may be some practical considerations, such as do you know how (laughter from audience)

—you know, often these things are processes. It's not just an impulse. And certainly it's not just an event.

And the simple answer, although it probably should be more complicated, but I'm not being flip and giving the simple answer, is:
You carry the weapon. That's how they don't see it coming. You're the one...

They talk about "color blind or blind to your color." You said it yourself.

You don't send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action.

You don't send the American Indian Movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action.

Who do you send? You. Your beard shaved, your hair cut close, and wearing a banker's suit.

There's probably a whole lot more to it, you know that. But there's where you start. .."

more...

The audio is apparently no longer available -only transcript:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001588.htm

[Semper Vigilantis]

0bama 2012 campaign strategy: Create civil unrest, declare martial law, suspend the elections.

[Tainan]

Its “day” for me...and I see it.

[kearnyirish2]

Many liberals thought they could keep blacks on the urban reservations, but they’ve been picked clean by looters. Now they raid where the money is, and these encounters become more frequent. They have conditioned their “youth” that any shortcoming can be laid at the feet of whites, while at the same time telling them they were entitled to everything with little effort on their part (the soft bigotry of lowered expectations).

While it is a shame that this happened to her son, it isn’t a shame that it happened to her - he reaped what she sowed.

[GreatMan]

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